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Re: heimdal and testing



Le April 28, 2008 06:17:10 pm Brian May, vous avez écrit :
> Filipus Klutiero wrote:
> > One of the things you could do is wait one day, after which
> > cyrus-imapd-2.2 would be old enough to transition. cyrus-imapd-2.2
> > needs to be updated, otherwise cyrus-common-2.2 would become
> > uninstallable due to its dependency on libkrb5-22-heimdal in testing.
>
> Another day, and nothing happened. I can't help think it is more
> complicated then that.
>
> <http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=cyrus-imapd-2.2>
>  says cyrus-imapd is now 10 days old and is waiting for Heimdal.
>
> e.g. have a look at
> <http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=libsasl2-modules-gs
>sapi-heimdal>.
>
> Then this is only one day old
> <http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=kolab-cyrus-pop3d>.
>
> It seems like Heimdal can't get moved unto testing until every package
> that links against the libkrb5 also gets moved into testing, and these
> have to be moved at the same time Heimdal is moved. Am I correct?
Yes. So heimdal is still waiting for cyrus-imapd-2.2 to be ready to 
transition.

> I thought the rules were that libkrb5-22-heimdal (and the corresponding
> source) would remain in testing until is is no longer used by testing.
> As such a Heimdal source package that only build libkrb5-24-heimdal
> could still enter testing without updating all users of the library at
> the same time. Maybe this has changed.
It has never been like that. There can't be multiple versions of a source in a 
given suite simultaneously. The only way to workaround the impact when there 
are soname bumps is to have several source packages.


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